Drawer-pull



(No Model.)

G. S. PEARSON.

DRAWER PULL.

N0. 406:664. Patented July 9. 1889.

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UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

GEORGES. PEARSON, OF VVATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

DRAWER-PU LL.

S'PEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,664, dated July 9, 1889.

Application filed M2 y 8, 1889. Serial No. 310,035. (No model.)

1'0 all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, GEORGE S. PEARSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Studs for Furniture-Handles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to all of the various classes of handles now upon the market, and has for its object to simplify and cheapen their construction without impairing the strength of the handle in the slightest, the construction, moreover, being such as to give to the finished article a very neat and attractive appearance. With these ends in viewI have devised the novel construction of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, numbers being used to denote the several parts.

Figure 1 is an elevation showing my invention as applied to an ordinary bail-handle or double-stud drawer-pull. Figs. 2, 3, aud t are views, respectively, of the shank, sleeve, and head detached; Figs. 5 and 6, views illustrating the manner in which the parts are'assembled; and Fig. 7 is a cross-section on the line a: min Fig. 1, looking toward the right, the bail bein g removed. I

1 denotes the escutcheon-plate, which may be either cast or struck up from sheet metal, and may be of any preferred design. At opposite ends of the escutcheon are the usual openings 2, through which the studs pass. These studsareinade in three parts*viz., the shanks, which are ordinary bolts, the sleeves, and the shells or thimbles, which are drawn from sheet metal. The shanks, which I have denoted by 3, are threaded at one end, and are provided with heads at at the other end.

5 denotes the sheet-metal shells, which are provided with openings 6 on opposite sides to receive the bail-handle.

7 denotes an internal shoulder in the shell, against which the head of the shank rests, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7.

8 denotes a sleeve provided with a flange 9,

the diameter of which is about equal to the diameter of the head, and which is passed over the shank, the flange resting against the under side of the head. This sleeve is in practice simply an ordinary eyelet, just as it comes from the eyelet-machine.

The operation of assembling is as follows:

The sleeve is placed over the shank and the latter placed within the shell, (see Figs. 5 and 6,) the flange of the sleeve resting against the head of the shank and the latter resting against shoulder 7 in the shell. In making, the metal of the shell is extended outward from shoulder 7, forming flange 10, which is now closed over the head t of the shank and the flange 9 of the sleeve, as is clearly shown in Fig. 7, but leaving the end of the sleeve still projecting outward.

For the purpose of this application a single illustration is deemed sufficient, and I have only shown my invention as applied in con nection with an ordinary bail-handle.

11 denotes the bail, and 12 the pivots or lugs upon which it turns. These of course may be formed in any suitable manner. They are preferably made integral with the bail itself, and may be turned. either inward 01' outward. Continuing the operation of assembling, pivots or lugs 12 are now passed through openings 6 in the shells, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, and the shanks and the ends of the flanges 9 on the sleeves are passed through openings 2 in the escutcheon. The portions of flanges 9 which project through the escutcheon are then turned outward, as shown in Fig. 7, and clamped down tight upon the back of the escutcheon, the escutcheon being in practice clamped firmly between the inwardly-turned portion of flange 10 and the outwardly-turned portion of flange 9, as is clearly shown in'Fig. 7.

It will be seen that this construction provides for the smallest possible number of parts, all of which are made in the simplest manner, and that when the parts are assembled they are held rigidly together and the handle is ready for attachment in place for use without the slightest trouble and without the assistance of a skilled workman. The handles are attached to a piece of furniture in the ordinary manner. The escutcheon flange, and a shell having a shoulder against which the head of the shank rests, and a flange closed over said head and the flange of the sleeve to fasten the parts together.

2. The combination, with a stud consisting of a shank having a head, a sleeve having a flange, and a shell having a shoulder 7 and flange 10, said flange being closed over the head and the flange of the sleeve to hold the parts together, of an escutcheon having an opening 2, through which the shank and sleeve are passed, the sleeve being closed over the back of the escutcheon to hold the latter and the stud together.

3. In combination, an escutcheon having openings 2, a bail having lugs 12, and a stud consisting of a shank having a head, a sleeve having a flange, and a shell having openings 6, which are engaged by the lugs, a shoulder 7, and flange 10, said flange being closed over the head of the shank and the flange of the sleeve, the shank and sleeve being passed through openings 2 and the sleeve turned over the back of the escutcheon to hold the parts in place, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE S. PEARSON.

Witnesses:

MAGGIE TIERNEY, HENRY S. TIERNEY. 

